Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1877 — Page 2

THE DAILY NEWS. Tolnute VIII Bf. gfl. HATl RDAY. AUGUST 11. 1I7T. JOHN fi. HOLLIDAY. Pwowtrarom. Tli« Daily Newt hu the largest cireaction or any paper in Indiana, and it read In nearly every town and village tributary to Indianapolia. The administration moves oh in spite of Maine. M wKs’e indifference does not ruffle Jhe presidential breast. Fbancb’s silk crop this year will be three times as large as last. Philadelphia’s permanent exhibition ii not patronized very extensively. Ko order to keep oat of politics has been issued yet te postoffice editors. Con. Mjegbcs denies that he abstracted an affidavit in the McKee case and offers to furnish a copy. It is said that A. B. Cornell, chairman of the New York republican committee and naval officer of New York, will de* cline to resign either place, and thus force a fight with the president. The Baltinore & Ohio road has had ihe impudence to present the government a bill for carrying troops to pat down the destroyers of its own property. This is as mean as the fellow who was rescued from drowning, and then aued his preserver for tearing his coat in gttting him out. Thb size of the Virginia conservative convention held this week has been commented on by a number of papers. It numbered something over fourteen hundred delegates. There has not been ft republican or democratic convention held in Indiana in ten years that did not number over 1,500 and some had nearly 2,000 members. Theux may not be another strike on the Baltimore and Ohio road as is rumored, but that road' would be doing simple justice if it reduced its dividends and paid its employes better. They have been cut more than any other important line in the country, and the company is still paying ten per cent, dividends. The Pennsylvania road, which pays its men much better wages, has cut its stockholders forty per cent, within three years and now pays them nothing. Capital can not expect to escape the shrinkage of the times any more than labor, and the New York Central is another corporation which ought to recognize the fact. It is now paying eight per cent, on a capital watered one hundred per cent.

An effjrt is being made to organize a "‘workingmen’s party” in Baltimore, and the platform adopted is as follows: 1. Eight boors for the present as a normal working day, and legal punishment cf all violators. 2. Sanitary inspection of all conditions cf labor, means of subsistence and dwellings included 3. Establishment of bureaus of labor statistics in all the states, as well as by the national government, the officers to jbe taken from labor organizations. 4. Prohibition o’ the use of prison labor by private employers. 6. Prohibitory laws against employment of children under 14 years iu industrial establishments 6. Gratuitous instruction in all educational institutions. 7. Making employers liable for all accidents to the injury of employes. 8. Gratuitous administration of justice In all courts of law. 9. Abolitiflp of all conspiracy laws. 10. RailroaoS; telegraphs, and til meanr of transportation to be taken hold of and operated by the government. ' 11. All industrial enterprises to be placed under the control of the govern--xuent as fast as practicable, aud operate^; by free co-opera live trades nuions for the‘ good of the whole people. Events in the east seem to show fhat Russia has blundered. Evidently she had mistaken notions as to the effectiveness of Turkey’s defense, • both as to the size, courage'* and equipment of her armies and the management of them. Russia has been outgeneraled. Mukhtar Pasha in Asia Minor was ‘‘too much for” Melikoff and the Grand Duke Nicholas. Osman and Mehemet Ali outgeneraled the cztr and the Grand Duke Nicholas in Bui-

geria, and Suleiman Pasha performed the same eervice for Gen. Gourke south of the Balkans. And now Hickness is aiding the Turk and it is given out that the Russian plans for the time yet remaining when the climate will allow of maneuvering will be confined to getting Bulgaria clear of the Turk and leaving the Balkans as the line of operations for next spring. Russia will do well if she does this. She will eventually conquer if this war continues. Plevna was hex Bull Run. It Las taught her the magnitude of the Struggle and it will be renewed onascale commensurate with it, unless the other powers compel peace.

The people of Virginia are to be congratulated upon the action of the conservative convention yesterday, in nominating Hon. F. W. M. Holliday for governor after a long and intensely bitter contest. The great question in A irginia is repudiation or no-repudia-tion. A large party is seeking to escape the burden of legally created debt and to set an example of repudiation which would be followed by other southern States. Indeed the contest in Virginia

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILY NEWS: SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 11. 1877.

is almost as important to other states as to herself, for her example certainly would be followed. The result of this would be excessively damaging to the south. Her credit would be greatly injured, it not totally destroyed. Capital would shun her and recuperation and development would come very slowly. The fi^ht in Virginia, as our dispatches have shown, was an exceedingly close and bitter one. There were five prominent candidates for governor, of whom Holliday has been particularly bold and outspoken in his opposition to repudiation and his demands that the good faith of the state should be kept. His nomination on that issue shows the feeling of a majority of the convention, which was the largest ever held in the state, numbering over fourteen hundred delegates. The effect will be very great.

There are several sides to the railroad question and in the near future we expect to see them all brought into view. There is the stockholders side and the employes side, and these are much the same side in the matter of renumeration. Then there is the managers side and the “fast freight line” side. Without discussing the fact here we lay down the theory that a railway strike ought never to happen. A factory, mill or shop may have a strike and the effects are local simply, damag- . ing no one but the parties immediately concenjpd and these, strikers will do well to note, italways damages. It damages the striker if nothing more than in lost time. It damages the proprietor if nothing further than in decreasing his ability to pay high wages. But a railway is something by its nature that is to.be ceaseless; it is not meant to stop. It is like the government, it must go on whatever else fails—ruin follows its cessation. It is like the involuntary functions of the human system, to be continued under all conditions, cessation is death. Its continuance is of as vital importance to the employes as to the managers and to the country at large, and it ought to be so managed as never to stop. Those in charge should draw around them a corps bound to their sarvice in good will, affection and aali-interest This can be done. It is not until there is badly adjusted conditions or wrongful distribution of labor, either by the ignorance or carelessness of managers, that employes become sullen and discontented, regard the corporation as their enemy and seek to be revenged on it. A great system of industry employing hundreds and in many cases thousands of men is in the highest economic sense a failure until it so weaves its employes’ interest with its own that the two are one and inseparable. This can be done. There are systems of civil service, pension, the care of widows and orphans, mutual benefit, insurance, the furnishing of food and fuel at cost prices, that are as clearly within the function of a railway corporation as the earning of money dividends on its stock. They can be adopted and carried out by the corporation on the one hand at the cost of only a little time and trouble, not one cent of money, and by the employes on the other hand by a glad co-operation,which will result in making every interest in a railway depend upon continuance. The railway problem is merely this. Each corporation must have a community of interest for every one engaged, as an insurance company has for avery policy bolder, Where the labors of each tend .to make his policy better.

WORSE THAN THE “BURiHERS.”

Tbe Huts that Nberitian I.eft Behind in Ufa .vi arch to the Sea. [Atlanta Comtitation.i A few weeks ago Mr. Holbrook, a sagacion* and sncceatfui grocery merchant on Peachtree street, packed hla stock of goods, moved them from his store into a vacant store a door or two off, then ripped up every plank in the floor, laid down a fljor of solid sheet iron, replaced the upper planks and moved bis goods back. “What doea it ail mean?’’ we asked him. “It means rata!” he replied, solemnly. “Yes, air, rata. I tell you the rats here cost me more by hundreds of dollars a ear than my taxes and insurance. I ave tried to get rid of them in every possible way. I have found that they continued to increase. I was consequently forced to move oat and put down a sheet iron barrier between the thieves and my goods.” “Why didn’t yon try cats or terriere?” “Cats?” in a tone of scorn. “Cats and terriers! Did you ever see this new breed of lats that we have here? We can’t handle them with cats or terriers either.” Atlanta has become so thoroughly iu feeted with rats that their destruction has become a matte r of very serious importance. The ruthless Invader of our storerooms, granaries and coops is the regular wharf rat—or Norway rat, as it is called. It is an importation, and not a native production. It is said that it came with Sherman's army to Atlanta, being brought hither in the forage for the horses that was shipped out from New York. The Sherman rat, as we propose to call him during the crusade against him that is hereby inaugurated, is a perfect monster. He is as large as a email kitten, has huge thighs and foreehoulders, possesses enormous strength, is combative and plucky, and his cruel, rapacious face is ornamented with a pair of flowing mustaches. He has bred with incredible rapidity since bis introduction here, and has literally devoured or driven out the modest, inoffensive, old fashioned little gray rat, that innocent, easily-satisfied vegetarian that may be termed “the rat of our fathers.” A more harmless little rodent than our little rat of ante-bellum times can hardly be imagined. He was accepted without a murmur, and really taken as a sort of a pleasant joke. He fignres in history as a decent, gentlemanly rat that cracked an occasional grain of corn, or licked syrap, once in a while, from his tail that be had dropped into some sweet jug He figures in history in such pleasant episodes as the famous visit of the country rat to the city, and in poetry as the rat that eat the malt that lay in the house that Jack built. He did no harm, and was liked and tolerated on all bauds. But this new rat that was bora in the throes of revolution, and growing amid the fierce turbulence of this latter day, ie a blood thirsty abnormal scoundrel. He despises the mild and musty corn, or the tranquil jam upon which the rat of our fathers fed, and whenever he wants a lunch he rushes out into your yard, siezes a ha'f-grown chicken, and clipping its throat latch with his sharp teeth, throws •the palpitating corpse over his shoulders and gallops back to his den to wallow in warm gore. These huge rats can be seen in great numbers galloping about the stores, along the street, at night. It is almost impossible to raise poultry anywhere in the city. The rata kill young chickens and ducks with the greatest ease, and durieg last winter entered, on one occasion, a chicken coop, and pulled from its roost and destroyed a fuli-grown hen. They kill grown pigeons frequently. They do not confine themselves to the city, but arc spreading into the country. We have seen them six miles from town. Dr. Taylor has one which is about as large as his dog, which burrows back of his store. The doctor says the barrow opr ns up at the other end somewhere bey ond Decatur. These rodents can swim a creek, and nothing seems to stop them. They make moonlight raids into the country, moving in troops of a score or so, carrying destruction to the bardyarn and g arteries and consternation to the sleek and non combatant rats of the rural districts. They will attack a man when they are pressed in a corner. On such occasions when flight is impossible they will fly at their pursuer in blind rage, ar d generally succeed in closing their teeth through his flesh somehow. Tne bite of this little animal is actually poisonous. Capt. E. M. Roberts was bitten by one, ard his hand is now shrivelled all around the bite. Mr. Harwell was bitten, and it waa feared that his arm wauld have to be amputated. Mr. Dickson was bitten, and was sick for weeks. The poison instilled is virulent and obstinate.

Ben. Hade’s Latent. IXew York Tribune Interview.]

THE EASTERN WAR. . .•gpr Russian Reverses—No Fighting at Plevna—Sickness in Camp. ■y A 6t. Petersburg letter states that 48,000 •fresh troops are already on their way by railroad to the seat of war. The guards will follow in ten days. These include 8,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry. Mehemet Alt telegraphs from R&sgrad, Auguefcyr-tbat ten companies of Russian infantry and six squadrons of cavalry attacked Yaillak, near Osman Bazar, and weie repulsed with the loss of sixty killed and 120 wounded.

No information has been received at the British embassy at Constantinople of any battle at Plevna during the last two days It is be'ieved the recent reports were premature. La Vorte. organ of the minister of war, also asserts that there has been no important engagement at Plevna since

July 31.

The Russians are beginning to suffer in health, seme corps from hard marching, heat and irregular rations. The principal cause, however, is neglect of sanitary precantions, resulting in the general tainting of the air at Biela. The air is thick ai d heavy with emanations from filthy and rotting offal. Genera! Igoatieff is still confined to his room with gastric fever. Prince Gaiatxin ie also abed with the same complaint. Pour out of tire adjutant generals in atteodanc* on the «zsr ar-' ill. Nearly everybody is more or less sick or squeamish. A correspondent with th* Dobrudscha army telegraphs that ma arisl f< ver is dung its work. HuT.drvOs of sick srrive at Tehernada da ly. the majority from th* neighborhood of Mejidjie wher* a steaming swamp poisons water and air alike. Dysentery also counts msny victims In proportion as th* season advances sickness increases.

St. V.oni* Uioicr* Released. The police authorities having failed to furnish witnesses egainst Currhn, Lofgrsen, F sher, Glenn, Allen, Curtis. Cope, Ratz and Goodhue, alleged to hav* been numbers of th* executive committee of the workingmen’s party during the late strike at ftt Louis, Judge Cady ref need to grant further tim* and the cases were nolle pressed The men marched out of the court >n triumph, and were congratulated by a large crowd of friends.

A Double Death-bed. Rev. W. H. H Clark, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal church, at Augusta. Ga . died yesterday at the bedside of a parishioner wio had just died.

“Do you think it the duty of Republicans who feel as you do, to step out by themselves and form a separate organiaatior,?” .... * Oh, no; not at all. The hope of nations is in the republican party, and we must keep it together. The ignorance and vice of the country are embodied in the democratic party, and we ought not to stop fightiug it for a moment. I am ss much a republican as ever, and mean to vote the republican ticket this fall.” “What harm do you apprehend will come from the president’s policy?” “We’ve got to give up the government to the democrats, hndjhe democratic party is controlled by the south, exactly as it was in Pierce’s and Buchanan’s time, the only difference being that the south is much more powerful now than then. The south doesn’t care for the democratic party. What they want 0own there is to indemnify themselves for the losses of the war oat of the federal treasury. They will first pass the Texas-Pacific subsidy bill; then they will take $100,000,000 for toe levees of the Mississippi. They will eet the supreme court on their side to open the way by decisions to the payment • f their war claim*. I can’t tell how far they will go. If they are stopped short of paying the rebel debt it will be because the republicans of the north become alarmed again and wrest the government out of their hands. Just uow few are awake to the danger. It hai ceased to be any reproach to a man to have been a traitor, and northern people look on the rebels as men who took a different view from themselves of a doubtful question of constitutional interpretation.”

Wanted to Fight* I Paris letter.] Speaking of ex-governors and all that sort of thing, I may remark that Hon. T. A Hendricks is domiciled at the same hotel that gives me shelter. He looks more roseate than I ever saw him, though he is very much disturbed by tBe news of the American railway war, aod has come within an ace once or twice of calling out the French militia—from sheer force of habit.

The Value of Travel. [Cincinnati Gazette.1 How the mind is improved by travel! Senator Hendricks having reached England. is “astonished to find how limited the Queen’s power* are!” While h* lived in “Injeeaney” he thought the Queen could swing on the gats, and have sugar on her bread and butter whenever she wanted to. How travel opens one’s e^es.

INDIANA NEWS.

“Korlt of Age*.”

Lafayette has forty-eight ealoone, only nineteen of which p*y license. The aggregate wool product of Cass county this season will be about 250,000 ponnda. James Montgomery, carpenter, of Shelbyville, forged notes to the amount of $2,000 before his departure. A little daughter of Jesse Lam, of Bloomingtoa, kindled a lire with coal oil with the usual result yesterday. The soldier* of the 37th regiment of Indiana volunteers have a reunion pic nic at Lawrencburg on Wednesday, the 29th. J. J. Fox, a farmer living near Peru, lost nearly 930 bushels of wheat last week by a spark from the engine employed in threshing it A little daughter and son of George Hall, of Jeffersonville, were burned to death Thursday evening while attempting to kindle a fire with coal oiL Mrs. Elizabeth Weifil, of Fort Wayne, seventy-five years of age, jumped into a cistern containing five feet] of water and saved the life of Her little grandson. Jacob Russ, living six miles north of Union City, had his entire erop of wheat destroyed by fire Thursday, caused by his little son setting fire to a stack. Loss, $300. • Dick Martin, a farmer, Inring near Rising Enn, Ohio county, had his leg caught and terribly mashed iu a hay prefs, causing injuries which resulted in death. Miss Eva Elliott of Newcastle was dangerously burned Thursday by lighting a fire with kerosene. Her mother was also badly burned in attempting toextinguish th* flames. A n eleven year old son of John Haines, of Lafayette, was kicked through the %ide of a barn by a young colt he was training the other day, and considerably but not fatally injured. Rev. M. 8 Ragsdall, ex-chaplain of the northern penitentiary, has gone to Jack sonville, Florida, where he will engage in teaching and preaching. His family will follow in October. Thomas Cranes and John Smith have been arrested at Brazil and taken to Gret-ncastle on snspicion of having murdervd Stady, the h«rmit. The evidence against them ia circumstantial. A fire at Fort Wayne Tnursdiy deetroyed the dwelling bouse owned by Conrad Brenner, and partly consumed an adjoining house owned by John Goetja. Low about $2,000, covered by insurance. Mrs. Frank Williams, of New Albany, used coal oil to kindle a fire. The can exploded, the lady’s clothing was burned off and her flesh cooked in a horrible manner. She lived but a short time. The Connersville News s’totes that Col. W. W. Frybarger, once chief of artillery of Indiana, and a useful and brave officer, is about to make application for admission to the soldiers' home at Dayton. Gillison Maghee, a wealthy merchant of Evansville, died at his home in Orange, N. J., Wednesday night. .He cams to Evansville forty years ago, and until 1868 lived there. He leaves a wife, five children and a vast fortune. The postoffice at Tborntown was broken into Wednesday night. There were a few postage stamps and about $8.00 or $10.00 in coppers taken, a few knives, French harps* and decks of cards. Total about $35.00 or $40 00 all told. An explosion of a steam threshing engine occurred one mile west of Frankton Thursday. Frank Melsan the engineer, was mortally wounded. Pieces of the engine were blown three-quarters of a miie. Low water did it. An eight year sou of John Hollis of Columbus found a quarter-pound package of powder, which bad been carelessly left lying in the yard, and of course he touched a match to it. His face and one aide of hia body were terribly burned. Two negroes of Vincennes, Charley Taylor, a barber, and William Barber, known as Bill Thomas, got into a fight, which resulted in the death of the latter, Taylor cutting his throat with a razor. Thomas thought Taylor too intimate with his wife. The store of Messrs. Newsom, at Azalia. Bartholomew county, was forcibly entered the other night by burglars, who drilled open the safe and abstracted therefrom some $400 in money. There seema to be a regularly organized band of robbers quartered in that neighborhood. The board of prison directors, in ses aion Thursday at the state prison south, decided not to bnild new shops for foundry purposes Penn, Gaff A Co , contrretors, of Cincinnati, who have 300 convicts employed, claim that number do all the work they require. ... The house of Mr N. W. Weakiey, the I., C. & L. agent at Thorntown, was entered Thurfday night. The burglar went through Lie pockets, taking all the small change and bis son’s watch. The store of Gus Cory was entered while he had gone to supper, in broad daylight. He lost about $8 or $10. The state camp meeting of the seventh day adventists met at Kokomo Thursday. Twenty-one counties are represented by 20 tent*. They are creating a great deal of interest in the prophecies and signs of Christ’s coming. They aiso teach the keeping of the seventh day, or Saturday, as required by the Mosaic law. They have a full line of their numerous publications, which they issue at Battle Creek, Mich., Oakland, Cal., and Basle, Switzerland. They publish seven papars in five languages, and are rapidly canvasting the United States. They have a large college and health institute at Battle Creek, Mich.

Virginia Conservative Nomination*. Cn the seventh ballot the name of Gen. Mabone was withdrawn and Hon F. M. W. Holliday waa nominated, receiving 852 against 568 for Daniel. General Jas. A Walker, of Pulaski, was unanimously nominated for lientenant-governor. Raleigh T. Daniels, incumbent, was nominated for attorney-general withont opposition. A platform was adopted recognizing the obligation of the public debt and recommendirg the general assembly toendeavor to readjust th e same in a manner just to creditors and honorable to the state.

Fixing Hie Responsibility. The coroner’s jury in the case of William McBride, shot while attending a meeting of the so-called workmen, at Philadelphia, Jnly 26, which was dispersed by the police, ren dered s verdict, although th* person who inflicted the wound which caused the death ia unknown, the deceased being present at a meeting prohibited by the major, the responsibility of his death rests entirely with those assembled.

Senator Conk ling at Home. Senator Conkling arrived from Europe yesterday on board the steamship Neckar, end received a perfect ovation from his friends, who met him when the vessel came to an anchor. A reception and serenade was tendered him in the evening at his hotel. He delivered a brief speech, in which he made no al usion to politic.

ZT WILL 8. VABIS. “Rook of a***, cleft n»*,” Tboiifhtlcssly the maiden taut; Fell the words unconsciously From her girlish, gleetal tonrue; Sans as little children sine; buns as sing the birds in June; Fell the wards, like tight loaves sown On the current of the tune— “Reck of ares, cleft for me. Let mo bide myself in thee. ‘‘Rock of ages, cleft for m*;” Twas a woman sung them now. Pleadingly and prayerfully; Every word her heart did know. Rose the song as storm-tossed bird Bests with weary wins the air. Every note with sorrow stirred, Erery syllable a prayer: “Rock of ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee. “Rock of ages, cleft for me:” Lins grown aged sung the hymn Traitingly and tenderly. Voice grown weak and eyes grown dim. “Let me hide thyself in ttieol” Trembling though the voice, and low. Rose the sweet strain peacefully As a river in it* flow; Bung as only they can sing Who life’s stony paths have pressed; Sang as only they can sing Who behold the promised rest. “Rock of ages, cleft for me,”Snng above a coffin’s lid. Underneath, all restfeily. All life’s cares and sorrows hid. Never more, O storm-tossed soul. Never more from wind gr tide, Never more from billows' roll Vfiltthou need thyself to tide! Could'the sightless sunken eyes. Closed beneath the soft gray hair, Conld the mute and stiffened lips Move again in pleading prayer, 8till-ay, still—their song would be, “Let me hide myself in thee.”

“SCRAFS.”

Faith is necessary to victory.—[Hazlitt Mrs. Ann 8. Stephens has written 23 novels. Galvanic electricity was discovered by a woman, Mm*. Galvani, bat her husband gets all the credit oi it. The dogs of Tennessee kill seventeen per cent of the sheep in that state every year. Gen. N. B. Forrest indorses the president’s policy, and has written hints letter to say bo. Ann Eliza Yonng, Brigham’s nineteenth, has joined the Baptist church at Lockport, New York. Joseph Jefferson will return to the American stage in October, after an absence of nearly three years. The New York World tells of “a new care for women,” and the Boston Globe is surprised to hear there is any care. A Brooklyn funeral procession, Monday, halted before a saloon, and iager-beer was served to all the mourners in the carriages. -k One of the Boston street railway companies has on file six thousand applies*lions for Use positions of drivers and conductors.

A yonng woman in Wareham, Massachusetts, earned $5 this summer by picking potato bags, trfd spent it on • flute for her betrothed. Ben Wade thinks the Ohio republican platform about es sensible as an attempt to arrest the ravages of cancer by the application of a bread-and-milk poultice. In England, it is a lady’s place to bow first to a gentleman. Everywhere else in Europe the man tows first In America it is just as it happens, and very properly so, too, says a high authority on etiquette. An ingenions Charleston, Illinois, jeweler has invented a clock with an alarm attachment, which, at the same time the alarm goes off, strikes a match and lights a lamp. But it will not lift a fellow out of bed, pull on hia boots or tie his cravat Geu. McClellan baa written a magazine article, showing that a sum greater than the expense of an increased military establishment has been annnally paid for the transportation of men and military stores. It seems that Judge West, republican candidate for governor of Ohio, quite overdid the matter when he slobbered upon the strikers. If he has the common sense which Ohio journals ascribe to him he must have left it at home.—[N. Y. Herald. , Wooden handles like a shawl strap are now put upon the watermelons sold in this city. If the last generation had done its duty'in artificial selection and interbreeding, nice handles wonld have grown upon watermelons by this time, so that they could be carried like a satchel.— [N. Y. Commercial Adv. VFhen lovely woman atoapa to frolio And feeda on fruit that ia not ripo, What charm can soothe the meton-colio, What art abate the frightful gripe? If youHeeire to restore caloric, And thus avert a Bad disaster. Give forty drops of paregoric And then apply a mustard plaster. -fN. Y. Herald. Questions of importance by a four-year old: “How do they get our souls out of our bodies when we die—cut ’em out?” “Why don’t we see the yellow embelopes the telegraphs come in, goin’ ’long the telegraph wires?” “If the bible cans bid old folks goats, bad children are kids, ain’t they?” “Is it too late forme to have a twin brother?” “Any rate, me and Billy Green is twin consins, aint we?” “If you waa me when you was a man, would you drive a hearse or join a circus?” * Gov. Brockmeyer, of Missouri, when somebody said to him, “Yob can’t expect men to work for a dollar a day,” answered: “Why not? When I came to this country, a boy of 18, I worked as a bootblack in the streets of New York. Thirty years ago I worked in a foundry for $3 a week, and I saved my money until I had enongb to bny a piece of land, and then I was independent. I should have spent the balance of my life on this piece of land, but was ronted out oi it by the war.”

Steamer Seized. The steamship Denmark, of the National line, which arrived in New York, yesterday from London, baa been seized by tbe revenue authorises for frauds on the revenue. Tbe officials will keep possession of her till she is bonded in the United States court.

How It Caaae About. [Saw York Graphie.l It is pretty wall known that during William H.Vasuerbilt’a youth his father, the commodore, bad very little confidence in bis sagacity or business ability. Against the advice of some of hia friends he persistently declined th* co-operation of the yonng man because be thought him “stupid." A story ie current on Staten Island which goes to show how the ommedore s eyes came to be opened to th* mistake into which he had allowed himself to fall concerning his oldest bov. William owned a farm near his father’s, and finding that it required fertilization he applied to him for soma tranar*. . * Bow much do you want? ’ inquired the commodore. “Oh, about a load,” said the eon. “Certainly, I can spare that,” was tha reply. When the commodore visited his place the next week he found that hia yards and atablec were swept clean of tha great Leaps of compost .which he had allowed to accnmnlate. “Why, how is this?” he said to hia farmer. “Your son cams and got it,” waa the answer. “He said you gave him permission ” The commodore went fuming to William, and said in a bustling way. “See here, young man, what have you be>n about? bow dare4 you to cart off all my manure?” “You said I could have it,” waa the rejoinder. “You told me to take a load.” “A load! why you have got every bit there is.” “I only took a load, father—« sloop load!” The old man’s eyes were opened, and he concluded to give the son a "slice” of stock to operate with, and soon after made him vice-president of tha Central road.

Wbat Wonld We Hare Dome. [President Hayes.] Suppose that we had gone on In the old way and sustained Chamberlain and Packard in South Carolina and Louisiana with the army, which waa the only way they could be sustained. And we all know that with tbe feeling in thoee states that then existed, it would have taken nearly the whole army to preserve the peace tf^ere and protect the local officials in their claims to their positions. With the army thns employed what sort of a fix would we be in when the riots broke out last week. Whet could we b<ive done? One thing we would be compelled todo; namely, withdraw the army and send it to exposed points in the north. Then what? Why, as we well know from the public temper in Georgia and South Carolina. as soon as the army was withdrawn tbe local governments would be assaulted and overthrown. Having no prop but the army, when that was taken away down they wonld come. Then wo would have the worse form of turbulence in tha South, and riota in tbe north and west. Tbe very stability of the government might have been endangered, for we know tbe state* adjacent to Louisiana and South Carolina wonldbe actively in sympathy wfth the attempt to overthrow the so-called republicangovernment while tbe troops were away. — ♦ — Auotlier Snake Story. [Oil City Derrick.! “Is the snake editor in?” “Amid the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune be never forsakes his post. Behold in me the snake editor.” “Well, I’ve killed a rattle—” “How long was it?” “Nine feet fonr.” “W hat! less than ten feet? This paper is no receptacle for fishing-worm stories,” and the exasperated editor seized the visitor by throat and shut off from his insides tbe breath of heaven. “Yeas,” gurgUd the poor wretch, “but it had eighty seven ra—” “No back talk!” yelled the editor; “we want no rattleanakee lees than from ten to twelve feet in length,” and the snake killer was dashed to pieces on the fliuty pavement below.

Virginia Convention Incident. A very funny passage occurred during the morning. Mr. Hinton alluded to a man in front of him as a miserable dog. The gentleman Indicated arose and wanted to know why he should be called a dog. Mr. Hinton—You called me a liar,-sir. Tbe gentleman—I beg your pardon, air; indeed I did not mean it. Mr. Hinton—I was within sound of your voice.” Tbe Gentlemen—You are mistaken. I said the 20th of Jnly. This was the key to the difficulty. Mr. Hinton made a graceful and ample apology-

Who Begin the Strikes! fNew York Central Ensiaeer.] When there ia talk of a strike it cornea first from those who have little to loss— tbe floating workers, who haven’t laid up a cent, and who have no one dependent upon them. Not one man iu twenty in this last strike that wanted to do it. A few hot headed ones ran the whole thing, and the rest went Into it for fear they would be sneered at.

High Time* lit a Tenne«aec Court. Gen. Henry D&rnell, on trial at Tiptonville Tennessee, for some offense, did not like the way tbe court dealt with him, and brought 25 armed men into court, overawed the sheriff and deputies, and marched out, denouncing the judge and defying the authorities. Gov. Porter tel* fgupbed for troops, but Darnsll and his equad left for Kentucky.

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